Menu Planning Monday

Monday - Double Cheese Chili with Cornbread 

Tuesday - Fettuccine Alfredo with Chicken with Broccoli 

Wednesday - Easy Italian Meat Loaf  with Mashpotatoes

Thursday -  Slow Cooker Tex Mex Chicken with Rice 

Friday - Steak and Potatoes

Thanks to KraftFoods.com for having such a wide array of recipes!

What's your menu for the week?

A few favorites

A few of my favorite pictures.........  I'll write more later.............  

Wordless Wednesday

A morning at the park

Not too sure about this Momma!

I think I can I think I can!

Look at me!

The boys shirts say "My Parents are exhausted"  Fireball looks exhausted here!

A morning at the park with friends.  Our church is starting to have a stay at home mom's play date!  How fun!  The Lord has made this day beautiful in so many ways.  Thank you for my beautiful children.  

FIREPROOF

I can't wait until Saturday night.  Friends of ours from softball have invited us to go with them to see Fireproof.  Their church is hosting baby-sitting to encourage them to see this movie.  If you go and see, comment and let me know what you think.  

The Ranch Labor Day Weekend

We went to the ranch for Labor Day weekend.  It was so much fun.  All of our kids got to be there this time.  Along with Aunt Gigi, Uncle Chris, Ty and E.   Grammy and Papa stay at the ranch most of the time when they are here from Africa.  Here are some pictures from our fun filled weekend.  We stayed in a travel trailer, the kids had bunk beds and Larry and I slept on a full size bed.   It was cool, hopefully one day we will own one ourselves.  

Julie is quite the little fisher woman, she caught 15 that weekend. 

Ronnie of course wants to be a "tractor man" when he grows up so he was just happy playing right off the front porch in the dirt.  We didn't have to worry to much about where he was.  If he wasn't playing with tractors he wanted to be on one. 

Daddy, Julie, Ronnie and Ty on the tractor, fixin' to go plow the field. 

   Blowing Bubbles was a favorite too.  Thanks Aunt Gigi!
Cody's first bath in a sink.  He's over a year old.  My very first bath was in a sink!

My Love of my life

Oh words cannot express my love and admiration for the Daddy to my children and the lover of all things me, my strong arms, rough hands, broad shoulders, teddy bear at times, grizzly bear at others, Husband.  School and softball starting at the same time as been a little rough on me.  Admittedly I've been a little more than short with the people I hold close to my heart.  But yesterday my husband brought me out of that crazy phase.  He took the afternoon of at lunch yesterday came home and said he would take care of the kids, and to go to the salon and get my hair done.    Thank you so much sweetheart for making me feel like a million bucks, I know it was almost that much to get it done.  He loves it, I have blonde highlights again and it's shorter, medium length.  Kind of like Nicole Richey's with the swoop bangs.  Then he took the kids and I out to dinner at the Olive Garden.  I love you babe, you're the best.